Data Recovery In Arlington Heights IL 60005

We are a local data recovery company and we perform data recovery on damaged and faulty media such as hard drives, SSD, RAID, servers, tape cartridges, memory cards and USB flash drives.

If you landed on this website, the chances are you lost some vital data and you are looking for a local data recovery company in Chicago to help recovery it for you. Whether it is valuable family pictures, business or financial documents, videos of your child’s first steps, or you just want to retrieve the music library you have accumulated through the years, we will do everything we can to recover it for you.

The advice we give clients is: as soon as you realize there is an issue with your media, you need unplug it from the power source. if you keep it running and try to make it work, you may likely cause more damage which may possibly result in serious data loss. Do not try to recover it yourself if you are not a data recovery technician and do not use one of those utilities such as Chkdsk because it can make things worse. It will also make the data recovery effort more difficult later on and thus more expensive. Drop the media and pick up the phone and call us at (800) 816-5011

Common Problems we have seen with computer media are:

Unreadable sectors/bad sectors.

This is a common issue that we see quite often where a hard drive has bad section that can not be read. The remainder of the data however is still safe.

Slow hard drive

This can also be caused by bad sectors on a hard disk. Another cause for a slow hard drive is firmware problems.

Head and Preamp failure

When your hard drive is making a clicking noise, it may be a head failure. When heads are exposed to shock or static electricity the get damaged. How damaged the platter is will determine the success of the recovery. The more damaged the platter the harder the recovery.

RAID Data Recovery

Despite the claim that RAID may be considered fault tolerant, it is nevertheless not immune to data loss. Our RAID Recovery technicians specialize in data recovery for all RAID array types including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10.

Broken Memory Stick

This issue can occur when the memory stick gets bent by accident or someone sits on it or steps on it the older the memory stick the weaker the connector gets weak from being inserted and removed from the USB ports on the computer. Any excessive force can break the memory stick and render it inaccessible. We may recover from this memory stick by removing the physical memory chips and recovering the data from them.

Dropped Laptop

If your laptop accidentally falls on the floor, there is still a chance that the data could be recovered because many devices nowadays have built-in shock sensors that minimize the extent of the damage as a result of the fall.

Liquid Damage

A liquid spill can cause some serious damage to your computer internal components including the hard drive. Often times the spill does not get to the hard drive and the data can be recovered successfully.
Data Recovery technicians are waiting for your call so please call us and talk to one of our data recovery specialists.